Artisanal fishermen, small scale fishers' and traditional dry fish processors have been suffering much amid the nationwide lockdown to stop spreading of coronavirus. As a whole, the lockdown has been impacting labors involved in different nodes of the fish value chain. The reasons may be a great reduction in inputs supply, increase in inputs price, problems in movement, low market demand of fish, lower price of fish, increase in transport cost, hoax that virus can spread from fish, etc. In bullet point-
a) What could be the major impacts of COVID-19 on fishers' and dry fish processors' livelihood?
b) What could be the best strategies and adaptive measures by the sufferers and the government to cope with the current situation?
Please share your experience and opinion....
Informative ..
Fish chain interrupted: How COVID-19 affects markets and trades
What can news stories from around the world tell us about the effects of COVID-19 on small-scale fishers' access to markets?
by Augustina Meh Ndum, Bruna Brito, Marzana Monefa, Paula Struk Jaia, Ruyel Miah, Mirella Leis and Vanessa Eyng
Combined with other difficulties in marketing, transportation, and trading especially for those depending on export markets, the threats to livelihoods and the food supply chain are real.
https://www.ofigovernance.net/covid-19-access-to-markets?fbclid=IwAR3pxG0GyYsPNH0GLI7bDKQKD8lxy6x4DVYyiUPVE9v-1R9uWU6TDOCZ56A
https://aquaconnect.blue/covid-19-survey-images/Covid-19-Infographic.pdf
On May 15, 2020, FAO released information on COVID-19 and small-scale fisheries, available at http://www.fao.org/3/ca8959en/ca8959en.pdf, to give examples of related initiatives. FAO's news release makes for very helpful reading and subsequent action as and where relevant.
Few linked recent information
COVID-19 impacts on fish and aquatic food systems
WorldFish and partners join forces in research response
Gareth Johnstone and Michael Phillips https://www.worldfishcenter.org/pages/covid-19/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/covid-19-lockdown-fish-in-stock-but-fishermen-at-sea/articleshow/74915587.cms
COVID 19: Bangladesh Multi-Sectoral Anticipatory Impact and Needs Analysis https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/covid_nawg_anticipatory_impacts_and_needs_analysis.pdf
Begum, M., Farid, M. S., Barua, S., & Alam, M. J. (2020). COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Socio-Economic Analysis Towards the Future Correspondence. doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0458.v1© 2020
M. M. Hossain
Thank you for sharing the literature. Gone through all and got interesting things. We can share our experience which has not been described. For example, I found a reduction in ice supply had resulted in reducing fishing duration (days) in Cox's Bazar.
Olivier Serrat
Thank you for sharing a good collection of published news. Very informative..